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What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending? (by Nate Silver) -- (link)

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Jan 18 '13, 05:34

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the declining level of trust in government since the 1970s is a fairly close mirror for the growth in spending on social insurance as a share of the gross domestic product and of overall government expenditures. (fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)

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No surprise that the broken healthcare model bears much of the blame, but I'm not sure if it has changed the way Americans think about government - Roger More Jan 18, 05:57 2
- Not for very many people, no. - Strongbad Jan 18, 06:07 1
  - That may be part of it. The obvious argument is stuff like Vietnam and Watergate, but I don't see the people who get upset about government today - Roger More Jan 18, 06:29
That was a good read, thanks. -- nm - TFox Jan 18, 05:47

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